If what I do prove well, it won't advance.They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.- Anne Bradstreet

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought;so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction,and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.- Anne Bradstreet

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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperouswithout a woman's excellence?- Sophocles

At no period of our political existence had we so muchcause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous andhappy condition of our country.- James Monroe

We will be remembered only if we give to our youngergeneration a prosperous and safe India,resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.- Abdul Kalam

As much as we need a prosperous economy,we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.- Caroline Kennedy

I support public and private partnerships wheneverappropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.- Alan Autry

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.- Benny Hinn

Henry Ford was right.A prosperous economy requires that workers be ableto buy the products that they produce.This is as true in a global economy as a national one.- John J. Sweeney

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailingthat assures the prosperous voyage.- George William Curtis

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow tothe terrorists and their desire to establish a safehaven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.- Scott McClellan

Ah, lives of men!When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture;when misfortune comes -A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.- Aeschylus

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother,and produce daughters after her image,but far more beautiful and prosperous.- Jeremy Taylor

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.- Marcus Fabius Quintilian

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because,when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomesmore valuable to the other.- William Howard Taft

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be.If you see yourself as continually hard up,that is exactly what you will be.- Robert Collier

Prosperous farmers mean more employment,more prosperity for the workers and the business menof every industrial area in the whole country.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we look to the history of other nations,ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid,so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.- James Monroe

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.- Jeremy Taylor

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous,but also more vulnerable.- Lord Robertson

When I chased after money, I never had enough.When I got my life on purpose and focused on givingof myself and everything that arrived into my life,then I was prosperous.- Wayne Dyer

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents,which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.- Horace

Although born in a prosperous realm,we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge,and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.- Charles de Secondat

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.- Henry Ford

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe,as one of many prosperous, tolerant,democratic countries.- Orhan Pamuk

Apply yourself both now and in the next life.Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundantcrop without cultivation.- Plato

You have made people listen.You have made people care, and you have taught usthat whether we are poor or prosperous,we have only one world to share.You have taught young people thatthey do have the power to change the world.- Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, to Bono. (November 1999)

For America's economic future to remain prosperous,we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continueto be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.- John Ensign

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computerindustry's decline in vision,idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomesmore and more important and prosperous.- Robert Shea

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do somethingthat will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy,safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.- Dennis Weaver

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor,due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer,of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.- William Graham Sumner

China is more prosperous than before.The people have better lives but they are not happyand confident because the scars are still there.- Jung Chang

We can all be proud of our men and women in the militarywho are following their orders,carrying out their missions and sacrificing so muchto give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.- Ron Kind

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy,healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness,health, and prosperity are the result of a harmoniousadjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.- James Allen

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who livein a hugely prosperous country telling people in thedeveloping world that they should be deprived of acritical source of energy.- Lee R. Raymond

The condition of the tribes which occupy the countryset apart for them in the West is highly prosperous,and encourages the hope of their early civilization.They have for the most part abandoned the hunter stateand turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.- Martin Van Buren

No one should suffer from the great delusion that anyform of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorshipof the few instead of the initiative of the millionscan produce a happier or more prosperous society.- Charles E. Wilson

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man.Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperousfarmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.- Nikolai Gogol

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome,voyage, we came at last into port.Immediately on landing I got together my few effects;and,squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearestand humblest inn which first met my gaze.- Adelbert von Chamisso

Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government,less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America.As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigoratedour confidence in ourselves.- David Vitter

I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States.After all, there was a great dollar shortage.It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became,the more business there would be in the United States.- W. Averell Harriman

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity,proper example and the advantages of education given them,the coming years will be as bright and prosperous tothe unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.- Nelson A. Miles

There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way.They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans.They wish to destroy our culture and Nation becausethey don't like our freedoms,they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.- Judd Gregg

We didn't become the most prosperous country in theworld just by rewarding greed and recklessness.We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild.We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street.We built this country by making things,by producing goods we could sell.- Barack Obama

I came here to help make America more competitive andprosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation,promotes cleaner technologies, encourages developmentof renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.- Greg Walden

I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisionsnecessary to keep our country and our people safe andprosperous and I look forward to representing the citizensof Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.- Jim Gerlach

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become.The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become.The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.- William Arthur Ward

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for.There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietaryhabits in rich countries-on the contrary,the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.- Susan George

We have had a great depression in agriculture,caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests,and some of our traders have suffered much from a toorapid extension in prosperous years.- John Bright

Be courageous.I have seen many depressions in business.Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous.Be brave as your fathers before you.Have faith!Go forward!- Thomas A. Edison

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve hisfarm without spreading comfort and well-being around him.Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population anda prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.- Antoine Lavoisier

Our country presents on every side the evidences ofthat continued favor under whose auspices it,has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependentcolonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.- Martin Van Buren

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts haveplanted these great and prosperous cities along theonce lonely trails of our own broad land,received all the fundamentals of civilization as aheritage from their European ancestors.- James H. Breasted

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support,are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens.Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep theirsocieties peaceful and prosperous.- Natan Sharansky

There may be some backward countries where the massof the people are on a subsistence level and where,as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures,the standard of living has to be drastically reduced,but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.- Charles E. Wilson

Success is a state of mind.If you want success,start thinking of yourself as a success.- Joyce Brothers

A consistent state of Serenity and Compassionis living an Inspired Life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.By and by love becomes not a relationship,it becomes a state of your being.Not that you are in love - now you are love.- Osho

Without health, life is not life;it is only a state of languor and suffering -an image of death.- The Buddha

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss- don Miguel Ruiz

Consistent happiness is found throughliving in a state of constant gratitude.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never do anything against conscienceeven if the state demands it.- Albert Einstein

Love is the total absence of fear.Love asks no questions.Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,not comparison and measurement.- Gerald Jampolsky

Soar - it's your natural state.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is a state of mind.- Anonymous

Life is a process of becoming,a combination of states we have to go through.Where people fail is that they wish to elect a stateand remain in it. This is a kind of death.- Anais Nin